From: Rick McCallister
Message: 52161
Date: 2008-02-01
> smelt is transitive: cause to melt__________________________________________________________
> melt is properly intransitive
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> Patrick
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 2:40 PM
> Subject: Re: Re: [tied] Re: Limitations of the
> comparative method
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> > Thank you !
> >
> > What about a *melting pot* ?
> > used for melting or for smelting ?
> >
> > Arnaud
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Rick McCallister
> > To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 9:37 PM
> > Subject: Re: Re: [tied] Re: Limitations of the
> comparative method
> >
> >
> > melt
> > smelt is used in an metallurgical sense --melting
> > metal
> >
> > --- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
> > wrote:
> >
> > . . .
> > > Tsalam? t?ob
> > >
> > > The cognate of PIE *tah2-(w) is
> > > th_gh_b : to smelt (especially snow or ice)
> > > which is phonetically a beautiful equation with
> > > LAtin tab-êo
> > > t = th
> > > H2 = gh (velar voiced spirant)
> > > b = b
> > >
> > > Another interesting word is Uralic word for
> "spring"
> > > which somehow looks like *taw or *tu-nd-
> > > but there is no trace of (gh) which should
> surface
> > > as -j- yod.
> > > Hungarian tavasz
> > > Etc
> > > but it should be **täv out of *tajw-
> > > it does not work
> > > so "spring" is not "ice-thaw" in Uralic
> > >
> > > Arnaud.
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